9739615

Autonomous Data Evacuation

PublishedAugust 22, 2017
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12 claims

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1. An apparatus comprising: a vehicle; a compartment that stores data in a data center and is motivated by the vehicle, wherein the vehicle is selected from the group consisting of a rotary-drive flying vehicle, a wheeled vehicle, a tracked vehicle, a vehicle with multiple legs, a pneumatic vehicle, and a ballistic vehicle; wherein the vehicle comprises a processor and a memory storing code that is executable by the processor to direct the vehicle to evacuate the compartment from the data center to a secure disaster recovery target located outside the data center using the vehicle in response to an evacuation signal to evacuate the data center.

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2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the compartment backs up a data source.

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3. The apparatus of claim 1 , the apparatus further comprising a loader that loads the compartment to the vehicle in response to the evacuation signal.

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4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the compartment is integral to the propulsion device.

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5. A method for autonomous data evacuation comprising: motivating a compartment that stores data in a data center with a vehicle, wherein the vehicle is selected from the group consisting of a rotary-drive flying vehicle, a wheeled vehicle, a tracked vehicle, a vehicle with multiple legs, a pneumatic vehicle, and a ballistic vehicle; and evacuating the compartment from the data center to a secure disaster recovery target located outside the data center using the vehicle in response to an evacuation signal to evacuate the data center.

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6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the compartment backs up a data source.

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7. The method of claim 5 , the method further comprising loading the compartment to the vehicle in response to the evacuation signal.

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8. The method of claim 5 , wherein the compartment is integral to the vehicle.

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9. A system comprising: storage hardware storing data; a vehicle, wherein the vehicle is selected from the group consisting of a rotary-drive flying vehicle, a wheeled vehicle, a tracked vehicle, a vehicle with multiple legs, a pneumatic vehicle, and a ballistic vehicle; a compartment that stores the data for the storage hardware in a data center and is motivated by the vehicle; wherein the vehicle comprises a processor and a memory storing code that is executable by the processor to direct the vehicle to evacuate the compartment from the data center to a secure disaster recovery target located outside the data center using the vehicle in response to an evacuation signal to evacuate the data center.

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10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the compartment backs up a data source.

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11. The system of claim 9 , the system further comprising a loader that loads the compartment to the vehicle in response to the evacuation signal.

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12. The system of claim 9 , wherein the compartment is integral to the vehicle.

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Publication Date

August 22, 2017

Inventors

Dean Hildebrand
John T. Olson
Sandeep R. Patil
Sachin C. Punadikar

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